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This presentation shines a light on Borges’ interest in mythology, image-making and their relation to one another, explore through photography. As Nise da Silveira’s psychiatric institution looked for unprompted manifestations of Jungian archetypes in the unconscious of her patients, Borges’ work resurfaces these important findings and presents them to a contemporary audience through an alluring and singular use of photography to create viscerally powerful new images rooted in a universal history.

Sofia Borges is a conceptual artist who has used the photographic medium for over a decade to …